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Swift as a swallow : extinct and endangered birds
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Swift as a swallow : extinct and endangered birds

by Rosamond Purcell, Ross D. E. MacPhee, Lars van den Hoek Ostende

Featuring seventy colour photographs taken at the Natural History Museum in Leiden, this book documents extinct and endangered species to provide a visual record of lost biodiversity and the ongoing threats to global wildlife.

Accession 18607 ISBN 0395892287 Publisher Mariner Books
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Rosamond Purcell, Ross D. E. MacPhee, Lars van den Hoek Ostende
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